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James Campbell Witte
Dr. Witte
is Director of the Center for Social Science Research, and Director of the Institute
for Immigration Research at George Mason University. He is Professor of Sociology there. Previously, he was Professor of Sociology and
Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Clemson University. He was Assistant
Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, and he was Research
Associate, at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin.
His research focuses on immigration policy, risk-taking by immigrants, civic engagement and social networks, social and educational outcomes analysis. He is an expert in Pakistan area affairs, having earned the Fulbright Specialist Award, 2014-16 (three trips to Pakistan).
Professor Witte recently was awarded $5.5 million for the Institute for Immigration Research. Immigrant Learning Center. He is widely published, including for example, “New Americans and Civic Engagement in the U.S.” also, “Interactions between Gender and Immigration in Wage Inequality among STEM Workers, 1980-2010” and “Tracking the Internet and Social Inequalities in the U.S.” He is co-founder of the George Mason University Partnership with the University of Karachi and the U.S. Department of State, $1,000,000.
Professor Witte holds the M.P.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin and the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University.
